So Brighton and Hove Council has allowed another commercial concern to monopolise Brighton and Hove's public services - NCP will run our traffic wardens.

Just as the council washed its hands of responsibility for public transport with the buses, so too it will undoubtedly allow NCP free rein to squeeze the public even more and raise car parking prices ad hoc whenever the mood takes it, the monopoly ensuring we have no alternative.

Once again, it is the private motorist who suffers at the hands of this administration. Why are decisions that affect the whole community made without public consultation?

Mind you, even when we are "consulted", the council just goes ahead and does whatever it wants anyway. It has proved it does not have our best interests at heart time and again.

Perhaps, come the local elections, rather than simply toe any national party line, we will consider our vote in relation to the issues that actually affect us.

-Jenifer Morgan, Eastern Terrace Mews, Brighton